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• REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY
• TAMMY BCE'S B: AGE, WORTH, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?
• NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS
• THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS
• WHY THE WHE HOE AND FOX NEWS ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY PRI
• DEMOCRATS CLAIM FLORIDA IS PHG 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL. HERE'S WHAT THE LEGISLATN ACTUALLY SAYS
• FOX CORP STAFFERS ARE FED UP WH FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” LGBTQ COVERAGEFOX CORP'S ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ WORKERS AND ALLI NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE.BY CHARLOTTE KLEAPRIL 14, 2022ENTRANCE TO FOX NEWS HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.BY ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS HAVE APPARENTLY ALIENATED THEIR OWN LLEAGU WH THEIR VERAGE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN. IN A RARE STANCE OF FOX CORP EMPLOYE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THEIR OWN EMPLOYER’S VERAGE, FOX PRI—THE ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ+ WORKERS AND ALLI ACROSS FOX BRANDS—NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY DTRY GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE AND NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST THIS WEEK. “FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” THE FOX PRI BOARD WROTE THE APRIL 5 STATEMENT TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH, ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLUS EMPLOYE OM FOX BRANDS SUCH AS FOX NEWS AND FOX WEATHER.FOX PRI'S STATEMENT WENT ON TO SUGGT FOX NEWS’ ON-AIR TREATMENT OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS AT ODDS WH THE VALU OF S OWN PARENT PANY. “WHILE THE TERNAL SUPPORT AND ROURC FOX CORP. OFFERS TO LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ARE AMAZG AND SUPPORTIVE, THE PUBLIC FACG MSAGG AND RHETORIC IS THE OPPOSE,” FOX PRI WROTE. “WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”PUT ANOTHER WAY BY ONE FOX SIR TO THE DAILY BEAST: “INTERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY. THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF ,” AND “THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .” THAT HYPOCRISY IS PART OF WHY EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” THE SIR NOTED, GIVEN THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”“WE ARE FULLY MTED TO EEDOM OF SPEECH AND EEDOM OF THE PRS BEE WE KNOW THE PREC RIGHTS AS WELL AS DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND OPN BENEF ALL," FOX CORP SAID A MENT TO VANY FAIR. FOX NEWS REFERRED VANY FAIR TO THE SAME STATEMENT.FOR MONTHS, FOX NEWS HAS BOLSTERED THE REPUBLIN PARTY'S NATNWI ATTACK AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS. FOX NEWS PERSONALI HAVE GONE TO BAT FOR FLORIDA'S “DON'T SAY GAY” LAW AND SIAR LEGISLATN THAT BAN CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN WH MISLEADG OR FALSE STATEMENTS. LRA INGRAHAM CLAIMED SUCH LAWS ARE “AIMED AT PROTECTG KIDS AND WOMEN,"  WHILE SEAN HANNY PHED THE WORK'S NEWT NTRIBUTOR CALYN JENNER, WHO IS TRANSGENR, TO LL FLORIDA'S ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL “MON SENSE." THEIR VERAGE TOOK AN EVEN UGLIER TURN WHEN DISNEY TOOK A STAND AGAST FLORIDA'S LAW, AS MEDIA MATTERS NOT. INGRAHAM CLAIMED DISNEY IS “GROOMG” CHILDREN, WHILE TUCKER CARLSON SAID DISNEY IS ACTG LIKE A “SEX OFFENR." TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.FOX PRI'S TERNAL MSAGE WAS PROMPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S CISN TO STRIP FOX CORP OF S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ-IENDLY EMPLOYER, DUCTG FOX’S RATG ON THE CORPORATE EQUALY INX OM 100 TO 75. "WE N NO LONGER ALLOW FOX CORPORATN TO MATA S SRE IF FOX NEWS PERSONALI AND NTRIBUTORS NTUE TO NY THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MIMIZE THE VLENCE TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS FACE, REFER TO PARENTS OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH AS PERVERTS, OR EQUATE LEARS OF LGBTQ+ DIVERSY AND CLNS EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS," HRC SPOKPERSON ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG "EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."FOX’S LGBTQ STAFF GROUP'S NOUNCEMENT OF FOX NEWS’ VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AND OTHER ISSU REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY OFFERS A VALUABLE GLIMPSE TO THE TERNAL DISSENSN ACROSS RUPERT MURDOCH’S MEDIA EMPIRE. FOX EMPLOYE OBJECTG TO WHAT THEIR EMPLOYER PUTS ON THE AIRWAV IS A RARE OCCURRENCE, TENSNS THAT RECENT YEARS HAVE BUBBLED UP RECENT YEARS OM CARLSON'S SEGMENTS. TWO LONGTIME FOX NEWS NTRIBUTORS, STEPHEN HAY AND JONAH GOLDBERG, RIGNED LAST YEAR OVER CARLSON’S SPECIAL ON THE JANUARY 6 RT AND THE BROAR RADILIZATN OF THE WORK. THE TOP-RATED FOX NEWS OPN STAR'S CENDIARY DOCERI ALSO PROMPTED REPORTED OBJECTNS OM POLIL ANCHORS BRET BAIER AND CHRIS WALLACE, WHO HAS SCE MOVED ON TO CNN+.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLECHARLOTTE KLE
• FOX NEWS HAS A NASTY ANTI-GAY HANER

REPUBLINS’ IRS ‘WHISTLEBLOWER X’ IS A GAY DEMOCRAT CRIMAL DIVISN WH 13 YEARS AT THE AGENCY

Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer televisn newssters have a proment profile many untri around the world.

TAMMY BCE'S B: AGE, WORTH, PARTNER, IS SHE GAY?

Amerin Charl Perez of ABC News is one to particularly note - he published his book 'Confsns of a Gay News Anchorman' (2011) after his oral of beg fired om a posn Florida when he was intified as beg gay.

For example, France, there is L'associatn s journalist LGBT, and Ameri there is the Natnal Lbian & Gay Journalists Associatn. Anonymo whistleblower, who prevly ttified before the Hoe Ways & Means Commtee last month, is expected to reveal his inty as a 13 year-special agent wh the IRS’ Crimal Invtigatn Divisn and as a "gay Democrat married to a man, " acrdg to his prepared ttimony obtaed by Fox News whistleblowers have alleged officials at the Jtice Department, FBI and IRS terfered the vtigatn to Hunter Bin and said cisns the se seemed to be "fluenced by polics. ”GUY BENSON: I'M CHRISTIAN, CONSERVATIVE AND GAYBenson, 34, is also the polil edor for Wise is a nsultant for the feral ernment, acrdg to the BENSON OPENS UP ABOUT BEING GAY, CONSERVATIVEThe pair met after Benson me out as gay on Fox News' "The Kelly File" 2015, where he'd been promotg his book, "End of Discsn.

""In the book, a footnote, I me out as gay bee there was a whole chapter about gay rights and the relig liberti, and I felt like was important for me to disclose to the dience jt ethilly, y, om a journalism perspective, " Benson was watchg the segment at home wh his fay Colorado and said sparked him to email Benson.

NEW YORK CY GAY MUNY ON HIGH ALERT AFTER STRG OF ALLEGED DGGGS, ROBBERI AND AT LEAST TWO ATHS

A WEDDING TOAST FROM PRODUCER CHRISTINE TO HER GUY"I wanted help rencilg beg a nservative and beg gay. Bis her work, she also got to the limelight due to her openly gay stance.

THE GAYG OF FOX NEWS

Brenda was found ad a room wh a self-flicted gun wound to her Tammy Bce gay? The New York Cy Police Department is vtigatg a strg of cints which gay men say they were dgged at bars and left wh massive unthorized bank acunt whdrawals.

At least two other gay men were disvered ad wh spic bank whdrawals, acrdg to fay members who are soundg the alarm on their aths.

"Word needs to get out, pecially the gay muny, that they are targetg gay men.... This same group of killers have dgged, robbed and murred untls young gay men New York. "Umberger, 33, was disvered ad an Upper East Si townhoe May after he left a gay club Hell’s Kchen wh a group of other men, the New York Tim reported Saturday.

WHY THE WHE HOE AND FOX NEWS ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY PRI

Jt a month earlier, another man named Jul Ramirez, 25, died the back of a b after leavg a gay bar wh a group of men jt blocks om where Umberger had spent the eveng before his both s, the men’s cellphon were missg when their bodi were disvered. MULTIPLE BRICK-THROWING INCIDENTS REPORTED AT NYC GAY BAR John Umberger died May 2022 Manhattan. "VIDEO SHOWS SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKThe New York Cy Police Department told Fox News Digal on Monday that Ramirez’s and Umberger’s aths "are currently unr vtigatn and the medil examer will terme their of ath.

" The police did not say whether the two men were targeted bee they were gay. The Rz Bar and Lounge Manhattan (Google Maps)Other men, however, have also reported beg dgged and robbed of fanc after a night out at a gay bars and clubs Manhattan.

DEMOCRATS CLAIM FLORIDA IS PHG 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL. HERE'S WHAT THE LEGISLATN ACTUALLY SAYS

"After wakg up, he disvered $2, 000 had been transferred out of his acunts through Paypal and Zelle apps on his New York Tim spoke to five men who said they were dgged at gay bars the cy and then robbed. SUSPECT IN NYC GAY BAR ATTACKS ARRESTED"[The NYPD] asked me if I had been asslted, and I was like, ‘Gettg dgged is asslt, ’" Tyler Burt, 27, said.

’" The Boiler Room Manhattan (Google Maps)Burt said he was robbed of more than $25, 000 after beg dgged at the Boiler Room gay bar the East Village last asked about the strg of alleged dgggs and robberi agast gay men, the NYPD nfirmed to Fox News Digal that the "Crim Agast Persons Un, along wh the Manhattan North and South Homici Squads, are jotly workg wh our partners the New York County District Attorney’s Office to vtigate several cints where dividuals have been victims of eher robberi or asslt.

FOX CORP STAFFERS ARE FED UP WH FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” LGBTQ COVERAGEFOX CORP'S ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ WORKERS AND ALLI NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE.BY CHARLOTTE KLEAPRIL 14, 2022ENTRANCE TO FOX NEWS HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.BY ERIK MCGREGOR/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFOX NEWS HOSTS AND MENTATORS HAVE APPARENTLY ALIENATED THEIR OWN LLEAGU WH THEIR VERAGE OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATN. IN A RARE STANCE OF FOX CORP EMPLOYE SPEAKG OUT AGAST THEIR OWN EMPLOYER’S VERAGE, FOX PRI—THE ROURCE GROUP FOR LGBTQ+ WORKERS AND ALLI ACROSS FOX BRANDS—NMNED FOX NEWS’ “HATEFUL” ANTI-LGBTQ RHETORIC AN TERNAL SLACK MSAGE EARLIER THIS MONTH. THE SLACK MSAGE WAS FIRST REPORTED BY DTRY GOSSIP SE FTV LIVE AND NFIRMED BY THE DAILY BEAST THIS WEEK. “FOX PRI NOUNC STATEMENTS MA REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY ON FOX NEWS THE PAST WEEK,” THE FOX PRI BOARD WROTE THE APRIL 5 STATEMENT TO THE GROUP’S PANY-WI SLACK CHANNEL, WHICH, ACRDG TO THE DAILY BEAST, CLUS EMPLOYE OM FOX BRANDS SUCH AS FOX NEWS AND FOX WEATHER.FOX PRI'S STATEMENT WENT ON TO SUGGT FOX NEWS’ ON-AIR TREATMENT OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY IS AT ODDS WH THE VALU OF S OWN PARENT PANY. “WHILE THE TERNAL SUPPORT AND ROURC FOX CORP. OFFERS TO LGBTQ+ EMPLOYE ARE AMAZG AND SUPPORTIVE, THE PUBLIC FACG MSAGG AND RHETORIC IS THE OPPOSE,” FOX PRI WROTE. “WE FD DISHEARTENG AND A STEP BACKWARD THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY.”PUT ANOTHER WAY BY ONE FOX SIR TO THE DAILY BEAST: “INTERNALLY, THE PANY VALU DIVERSY. THEY VT AND FOSTER OM A MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE. THE ON-AIR FOX NEWS PRODUCT, HOWEVER, SPS THE FACE OF ,” AND “THE EMPLOYE ARE GETTG SICK OF .” THAT HYPOCRISY IS PART OF WHY EMPLOYE ARE “VERY OUTRAGED,” THE SIR NOTED, GIVEN THE WORK’S PERSONALI ARE “TARGETG DISNEY FOR DOG WHAT [FOX IS] DOG TERNALLY TERMS OF PROMOTG CLN.”“WE ARE FULLY MTED TO EEDOM OF SPEECH AND EEDOM OF THE PRS BEE WE KNOW THE PREC RIGHTS AS WELL AS DIVERSY OF THOUGHT AND OPN BENEF ALL," FOX CORP SAID A MENT TO VANY FAIR. FOX NEWS REFERRED VANY FAIR TO THE SAME STATEMENT.FOR MONTHS, FOX NEWS HAS BOLSTERED THE REPUBLIN PARTY'S NATNWI ATTACK AGAST LGBTQ+ AMERINS. FOX NEWS PERSONALI HAVE GONE TO BAT FOR FLORIDA'S “DON'T SAY GAY” LAW AND SIAR LEGISLATN THAT BAN CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN WH MISLEADG OR FALSE STATEMENTS. LRA INGRAHAM CLAIMED SUCH LAWS ARE “AIMED AT PROTECTG KIDS AND WOMEN,"  WHILE SEAN HANNY PHED THE WORK'S NEWT NTRIBUTOR CALYN JENNER, WHO IS TRANSGENR, TO LL FLORIDA'S ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL “MON SENSE." THEIR VERAGE TOOK AN EVEN UGLIER TURN WHEN DISNEY TOOK A STAND AGAST FLORIDA'S LAW, AS MEDIA MATTERS NOT. INGRAHAM CLAIMED DISNEY IS “GROOMG” CHILDREN, WHILE TUCKER CARLSON SAID DISNEY IS ACTG LIKE A “SEX OFFENR." TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.FOX PRI'S TERNAL MSAGE WAS PROMPTED BY THE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN’S CISN TO STRIP FOX CORP OF S STAT AS A PREFERRED LGBTQ-IENDLY EMPLOYER, DUCTG FOX’S RATG ON THE CORPORATE EQUALY INX OM 100 TO 75. "WE N NO LONGER ALLOW FOX CORPORATN TO MATA S SRE IF FOX NEWS PERSONALI AND NTRIBUTORS NTUE TO NY THE EXISTENCE OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MIMIZE THE VLENCE TRANSGENR DIVIDUALS FACE, REFER TO PARENTS OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH AS PERVERTS, OR EQUATE LEARS OF LGBTQ+ DIVERSY AND CLNS EFFORTS WH SEX OFFENRS," HRC SPOKPERSON ARYN FIELDS SAID A STATEMENT, NOTG "EACH OF THE ACTNS HAPPENED THE LAST 72 HOURS. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH."FOX’S LGBTQ STAFF GROUP'S NOUNCEMENT OF FOX NEWS’ VERAGE OF FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL AND OTHER ISSU REGARDG SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY OFFERS A VALUABLE GLIMPSE TO THE TERNAL DISSENSN ACROSS RUPERT MURDOCH’S MEDIA EMPIRE. FOX EMPLOYE OBJECTG TO WHAT THEIR EMPLOYER PUTS ON THE AIRWAV IS A RARE OCCURRENCE, TENSNS THAT RECENT YEARS HAVE BUBBLED UP RECENT YEARS OM CARLSON'S SEGMENTS. TWO LONGTIME FOX NEWS NTRIBUTORS, STEPHEN HAY AND JONAH GOLDBERG, RIGNED LAST YEAR OVER CARLSON’S SPECIAL ON THE JANUARY 6 RT AND THE BROAR RADILIZATN OF THE WORK. THE TOP-RATED FOX NEWS OPN STAR'S CENDIARY DOCERI ALSO PROMPTED REPORTED OBJECTNS OM POLIL ANCHORS BRET BAIER AND CHRIS WALLACE, WHO HAS SCE MOVED ON TO CNN+.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — INSI THE VIS-HUNTG NONPROF AT THE CENTER OF THE LAB-LEAK CONTROVERSY— JARED KHNER AND DONALD TMP PROBABLY WON’T BE SPLTG A MILKSHAKE ANYTIME SOON— CNN LEAV THE DRAMA BEHD WH FOC ON WAR UKRAE— TMP’S TTH SOCIAL IS AN EVEN BIGGER HUIATN THAN PREV BS FAILUR— THE CLOCK IS TICKG ON THE JANUARY 6 INVTIGATN— THE WASHGTON POST CHECKS IN, FDS TMP IS STILL A LYG SOCPATH— A UKRAIAN WOMAN EXPLAS THE WAR TO EUROPE’S SKEPTICS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW PLAYBOY IMRAN KHAN BEME THE PRIME MISTER OF PAKISTAN— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLECHARLOTTE KLE

Frank BniColumnist, The New York Tim@FrankBniFormerly the chief rtrant cric for The New York Tim, Bni ma history 2011 by beg the Grey Lady's first out gay lumnist. The Emerson College assistant profsor is also a producer of the upg film Michael, based on his Tim Magaze piece about his "ex-gay" iend. Kate FaganWrer, ESPN@KateFagan3ESPN ntributor and lumnist Kate Fagan wr about basketball (and genr and sexism and homophobia) om a place of knowledge and ep, personal appreciatn.

There, the former Fox News anchor discsed gay stereotyp and the dangers of beg pigeonholed as a gay journalist. "I don't want to be the gay journalist. I want to be the journalist who is gay.

After he began to do that, at the NLGJA chat he revealed he had been ma the "token gay" multiple tim and advised others to avoid if warned agast acceptg suatns where an edor says, "Oh, there's a gay story.

FOX NEWS HAS A NASTY ANTI-GAY HANER

Gay guy, go ver that. "[iame height=349 width=560]"You know how they stereotype [gay men], " Smh said, enuragg others to rema lm and bslike.

"He add that while "that's te for dividuals, " is not te for gay men as a group. "Life is wonrful beg out and gay and proud, " he said.

I'm so proud and happy to be part of this lovg gay muny.